Presently, Junichi was sitting at the table with Hibiki and Haruka, somehow he felt a bit uncomfortable being stared at Hibiki, after a moment she finally spoke.
"Tachibana-kun, It's been a while, how's your recovery?"
"It's getting better."
"I see that's a relief."
Hibiki looked at him with a smile, she was honestly worried about him when she heard the news of him getting beat up, she wanted to visit him but she hesitated, because she was afraid of misunderstanding, she knows that this is pointless but that was it, she was overthinking things, plus she thinks that they weren't that close enough.
"Ehhh?! You two know each other? I didn't know that! Hibiki-chan! Why didn't you tell me? You too Tachibana-kun!"
"Ah, sorry I thought it was unnecessary." He said.
"I agree." Hibiki nodded.
"Unnecessary? It's important to me, you know?!"
Haruka pouted at both of them, then both Hibiki and Junichi stared at each other with a wry smile.
"Sorry about that, she's always like this." She said,
"No, I have a feeling that Morishima-senpai was like this."
"Right?" Hibiki chuckled.
"You two are mean! Don't leave me behind!" Haruka exclaimed.
"Yeah, you're absolutely right Tsukihara-senpai."
"That's right Tachibana-kun."
"Hey! Both of you don't ignore me!" Haruka became sad.
"Ah, sorry we'll stop teasing you. It's just adorable looking at your reaction, Morishima-senpai."
"Hmph! I'll ignore you both!" Even though she said that inside she was a bit happy being called adorable by him, and this was rare. She was used to being praised from a very young age, so making her happy by calling her cute or similar is very rare.
Hibiki noticed something, and she smiled while closing her eyes.
"I see..so that's how it is…"
"Eh? What do you mean Hibiki?" Haruka wanted to know.
While Junichi was silent, he thought. 'Well, she isn't wrong that I'm flirting with Haruka but, it wasn't my intention. It just happened to be a good time to say those words.'
Hibiki was used to this by now, she had experienced this countless times with Haruka, it can't be helped, after all, Haruka was extremely good-looking, unlike her, she was above average at most that's what she thought.
Almost every day, Haruka would receive love letters, since she was popular after all. Hibiki admits that she was jealous of Haruka sometimes, but that's it she could never hate her best friend.
She didn't want to bother them, so Hibiki decided to leave them, unexpectedly Junichi said something that made her stay.
"While Morishima-senpai was adorable, I don't know why everyone didn't notice Tsukihara-senpai beauty, she's a rare type of cool beauty."
"I totally agree with you Tachibana-kun! She's really beautiful! See Hibiki! I told you that you're beautiful but you didn't believe me!" Haruka often says that Hibiki is beautiful, but she doesn't take Haruka's words seriously, since Hibiki thought that Haruka was just saying that to make her feel better.
Right now, Hibiki was still processing the current situation. This was the first time this happened to her, so she didn't know how to respond, then she looked at Junichi who was staring at her chest and face with such a serious expression, and that was the last nail to seal the coffin.
A burst of emotion exploded inside her, and suddenly her face started to turn red. This was the first time she experienced such a sensation, although it was rude to be stared at, however she didn't feel angry or annoyed at all! Instead, she was pleased for some reason!
Hibiki's heart was beating excitedly, she only experienced this kind of feeling when she first experienced winning a medal in a swimming competition!
As a result, she couldn't properly look at Junichi right now, she couldn't let them see her face! I
While she wasn't looking. Junichi thought. 'Just as planned!'
"Junichi-kun, you're making a very weird expression right now," Haruka said while looking at the Junichi version of Light Yagami, just as planned expression...
Hibiki couldn't help but twitch hearing that, she thought. 'H-he's looking at me with a weird expression?!'
No, he didn't.
Junichi was speechless hearing her thoughts, she misunderstood Haruka's words but it's not like he'll do something about it he was grateful for Haruka's misunderstanding assistance!
"Oh really? I didn't notice." After saying that, Hibiki was sure that Junichi was looking at her weirdly.
She didn't hate it nor was she feeling uncomfortable, in fact, she was pleased for some reason, she thought. 'What is this? Why do I feel happy?'
She couldn't understand such feelings, no one has ever done the same thing as Junichi to her, normally girls would find it creepy for boys to stare at them weirdly, but within a certain condition, they wouldn't find it creepy instead they will be pleased.
And those conditions are someone like Hibiki who was not confident with her appearance, right timing, a certain level of affection it didn't have to be at the level of like, just at the level of being friends and the most important thing is, you should a decent appearance because that is very important, people judge based on a persons' appearance after all.
That is an inevitable fact, appearance is very important, that is reality unless you're loaded with cash no matter how you look countless gold diggers would go after you.
To Junichi who is neither handsome nor ugly, he passed these conditions that's why he could make an effect like this.
"Anyway, Hibiki, why aren't you looking at this way?"
"E-eh? No, I was looking at the menu's dessert. I thought it would be nice to eat something sweet for once in a while." Hibiki was making excuses now, she couldn't tell her the real reason why she was looking away.
"How rare! Usually, you'll say that sweets are no good for athletes like you"
"W-well I have the urge to eat sweets today for some reason. A-anyway! I'll buy some!" Hibiki quickly stood up and left hurriedly.
"She wanted to eat sweets that much? Hey Junichi-kun, what do you think happened?"
"Who knows? The tea tastes sweeter than usual.."
"But Junichi-kun...that's a soup."
"Oh."
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After lunch, he left both Haruka and Hibiki after saying goodbye, though Hibiki started to act differently to him like she usually does, and he knew the reason, he couldn't help but smile. It wasn't a secret that among the heroines, he likes Hibiki the most.
But currently, he couldn't pick between Kaoru and Hibiki, both of them are no. 1 to him.
While he was on his way to the classroom, Masayoshi was praising him like crazy, he must be happy that he got to talk with his crush for the first time, good for him.
"Well, don't be too happy you just made your first impression of her, she doesn't like you yet so don't confess so suddenly, try to interact with her more often now, remember don't act stupid or you wouldn't have a chance dating her in the future," Junichi said.
"Yeah, don't worry I won't fail this time." Masayoshi clenched his fist above the air.
Junichi smirked seeing his action. "Is that so? Good then, let's get our asses back to our classroom!"
"Yeah!"
(End-)
Name: Tsukahara Hibiki
Affection:65% (Interested)
Mood: Complicated
Current thoughts: I'm beautiful? No way, that's impossible..there is no way I am...b-but he didn't lie about it right?
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